Harness



(No Model.)

J. P. BARBER.

HARNESS.

No. 361,917. Patented Apr. 26, 1887.

WITNESSES J, uvmzvfoz:

Z7 M i? J Afternfly UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES FRANKLIN BARBER, OF BROKEN ARROW', ALABAMA.

HARNESS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 361,917, dated April 26, 1887.

Application filed December 4, 1886. Serial No. 220,725. (No model.)

To all whom, it 71mg concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES FRANKLIN BAR- BER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Broken Arrow, in the county of St. Clair and State of Alabama, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Harness, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings.

My invention relates to an improvement in harness; and it consists in the peculiar construction and combination of devices, that will be more fully set forth hereinafter, and particularly pointed out in the claims.

In the drawings, Figurel is a side elevation of my harness complete. Fig. 2 is a similar view of the buckle for uniting the trace, the saddle-strap, and the breeching-strap. Fig. 3 is a horizontal longitudinal sectional view of the same, taken on the line wxof Fig. 2. Fig. etis a vertical sectional view taken on the line 3 y of Fig. 2.

A represents a combinationbuckle, having the loop a, provided with a pivoted tongue, b, at its front end, the loop 0, having the tongue cl near its rear end, on the upper side, and the rearwardly extending loop 6. Loops f and g are formed in the body of the buckle below the loop 0, a crossbar, 71 being between said loops. An eye, 17, projects from the face of the cross-bar, and to this eye is secured a snaphook, k.

It will be observed by reference to Fig. 3 that the body portion of the buckle is projected outwardly beyond the plane of the outer portions of the loops a and c, and thereby the said projected body portion permits the free ends of the traces and of the breeching-straps to pass through the loops a and c and lie snugly against each other on the inner side of the body portion,and thus avoid chafing the sides of the horse.

B represents the strap that depends from the harness-saddle, O the breeching, D the hipstrap, E the back-strap, and]? the breechingstrap or holdback-strap, all of which are constructed in the usual way. The lower end of the strap 13 is secured by the tongue d in the loop 0, and passed through the loops f and g back of the cross-bar. A ring, G, is slipped on the thill z of the vehicle-back to a stop, 2, depending from the lower side thereof, and to this ring is connected a link, H, adapted to be caughtby the snap-hook to support the thills. A rod or wire, I, is secured at its front end to the link H, and at its rear end to the singletree 2. The breeching-strap is secured in the loop e, and the short trace'K, which has 1ts front end secured to the hames in the usual manner, is secured at its rear end to the loop a by the tongue I).

I have herein shown and described only one side of the harness; but the other side will of course be a counterpart thereof.

It will be readily seen that the horse is at tached to the thills of the vehicle only by the snap hooks 7c, and that in order to detach the horse from the vehicle it is only necessary to detach the snap-hooks from the links H. The rings G, links H, and rods I are permanently attached to the thills and remain 011 them when the horse is taken out. Should it be desired to remove them from the thills for any reason, it is only necessary in order to do so to release the rods I from the ends of the single-tree and slip the rings forward off the thills.

A harness thus constructed is light, cheap, and very durable, can be easily and quickly placed on the horse, and enables the latter to be attached to or detached from the thills in a moment, which is avery great convenience in cold weather or when in a hurry.

Having thus described my invention, I claim- 1. In a harness, the combination of the stantially as described.

3. The combination, with the buckle, of the ring G on the vehicle-thill, connected to the In testimony that I claim the foregoing as buckle, and the strap K, connecting the buckle my own I have hereto affixed my signature in and. the horse-collar, substantially as set forth. presence of two Witnesses.

4. The buckle having the loops a c, pro- JAMES FRANKLIN BARBER. 5 vided with tongues I) d, and the loop earn]. the WVitnesses:

hook 70 loosely connected to the buckle, as set SIDNEY J. WARREN,

forth. JNo. B. MARTIN. 

